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Machine unlearning (MU) aims to expunge a designated forget set from a trained model without costly retraining, yet the existing techniques overlook two critical blind spots: "over-unlearning" that deteriorates retained data near the forget…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 SeungBum Ha , Saerom Park , Sung Whan Yoon

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong potential in accelerating digital hardware design through automated code generation. Yet, ensuring their reliability remains a critical challenge, as existing LLMs trained on massive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yiwen Liang , Qiufeng Li , Shikai Wang , Weidong Cao

The development of artificial intelligence demands that models incrementally update knowledge by Continual Learning (CL) to adapt to open-world environments. To meet privacy and security requirements, Continual Unlearning (CU) emerges as an…

Machine unlearning, the ability for a machine learning model to forget, is becoming increasingly important to comply with data privacy regulations, as well as to remove harmful, manipulated, or outdated information. The key challenge lies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Jack Foster , Stefan Schoepf , Alexandra Brintrup

The rapid progress of AI, combined with its unprecedented public adoption and the propensity of large neural networks to memorize training data, has given rise to significant data privacy concerns. To address these concerns, machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Ali Abbasi , Chayne Thrash , Elaheh Akbari , Daniel Zhang , Soheil Kolouri

With the continued advancement and widespread adoption of machine learning (ML) models across various domains, ensuring user privacy and data security has become a paramount concern. In compliance with data privacy regulations, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Nexhi Sula , Abhinav Kumar , Jie Hou , Han Wang , Reza Tourani

Foundation models have transformed multimedia analysis by enabling robust and transferable representations across diverse modalities and tasks. However, their static deployment conflicts with growing societal and regulatory demands --…

Machine unlearning strives to uphold the data owners' right to be forgotten by enabling models to selectively forget specific data. Recent advances suggest pre-computing and storing statistics extracted from second-order information and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Xinbao Qiao , Meng Zhang , Ming Tang , Ermin Wei

Machine unlearning -- efficiently removing the effect of a small "forget set" of training data on a pre-trained machine learning model -- has recently attracted significant research interest. Despite this interest, however, recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Kristian Georgiev , Roy Rinberg , Sung Min Park , Shivam Garg , Andrew Ilyas , Aleksander Madry , Seth Neel

Machine Learning models thrive on vast datasets, continuously adapting to provide accurate predictions and recommendations. However, in an era dominated by privacy concerns, Machine Unlearning emerges as a transformative approach, enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Robert Dilworth

Machine unlearning (MU) has emerged as a key mechanism for ensuring data privacy and regulatory compliance by enabling models to forget specific training samples. However, recent studies have shown that the removal of data can inadvertently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jie Fu , Nima Naderloui , Da Zhong , Yuan Hong , Wendy Hui Wang

While the capabilities of generative foundational models have advanced rapidly in recent years, methods to prevent harmful and unsafe behaviors remain underdeveloped. Among the pressing challenges in AI safety, machine unlearning (MU) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Marcin Sendera , Łukasz Struski , Kamil Książek , Kryspin Musiol , Jacek Tabor , Dawid Rymarczyk

Machine unlearning enables pre-trained models to remove the effect of certain portions of training data. Previous machine unlearning schemes have mainly focused on unlearning a cluster of instances or all instances belonging to a specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Heng Xu , Tianqing Zhu , Wanlei Zhou , Wei Zhao

This work delves into the complexities of machine unlearning in the face of distributional shifts, particularly focusing on the challenges posed by non-uniform feature and label removal. With the advent of regulations like the GDPR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Ling Han , Nanqing Luo , Hao Huang , Jing Chen , Mary-Anne Hartley

With the explosive growth of deep learning applications and increasing privacy concerns, the right to be forgotten has become a critical requirement in various AI industries. For example, given a facial recognition system, some individuals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Dasol Choi , Dongbin Na

Machine unlearning has become an important area of research due to an increasing need for machine learning (ML) applications to comply with the emerging data privacy regulations. It facilitates the provision for removal of certain set or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Vikram S Chundawat , Ayush K Tarun , Murari Mandal , Mohan Kankanhalli

Privacy protection laws, such as the GDPR, grant individuals the right to request the forgetting of their personal data not only from databases but also from machine learning (ML) models trained on them. Machine unlearning has emerged as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Najeeb Jebreel , David Sánchez

Recent legal frameworks have mandated the right to be forgotten, obligating the removal of specific data upon user requests. Machine Unlearning has emerged as a promising solution by selectively removing learned information from machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Xiang Li , Bhavani Thuraisingham , Wenqi Wei

Diffusion models are renowned for their state-of-the-art performance in generating synthetic images. However, concerns related to safety, privacy, and copyright highlight the need for machine unlearning, which can make diffusion models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xun Yuan , Zilong Zhao , Jiayu Li , Aryan Pasikhani , Prosanta Gope , Biplab Sikdar

Due to increasing privacy regulations and regulatory compliance, Machine Unlearning (MU) has become essential. The goal of unlearning is to remove information related to a specific class from a model. Traditional approaches achieve exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Atharv Mittal